The WHL’s fourth-leading scorer in his draft year, Catton registered 54 goals and 120 points in a combined 72 regular-season and playoff games on a Spokane team that lost more games than it won. He had real pedigree even before his draft season, too, as a No. 1 pick into the WHL who was an offensive catalyst on a bad Chiefs team in his rookie season and who also led Canada Red to silver as captain at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge with 12 points in seven games and then again captained Canada at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup with a tournament-leading eight goals and 10 points in five games. He continued to build on his strong statistical profile last season as well, producing near the top of the WHL again (151 points in 77 combined regular-season and playoff games) and looking like he was playing with his food after the arrival of Capitals top prospect Andrew Cristall (they were the best duo in the CHL and made plays with ease inside the offensive zone).
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